Tourist, by John Calvin Abney

Tourist

by John Calvin Abney

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James Kilpatrick Every album JCA expands is vast palate of talent. He has a rare ability to touch on real feelings and emotions everyone feels and makes you believe the words he’s singing with his hushed vocals. Sonic texture wise he has always experimented album to album. With this one he recorded it in various rooms along his journey from place to place. I feel this one is a bit better straight through then his last one. My favorite of his will always be Coyote but all of his albums are great. Favorite track: Watch Me Go (Back in Time).

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1.	Full Moon Friend 03:00	buy track
2.	Call Me Achilles 02:52	buy track
3.	Holy Golden West 04:22	buy track
4.	Watch Me Go (Back in Time) 04:08	buy track
5.	By Your Leave 03:23	buy track
6.	Long Black River 03:44	buy track
7.	Leave Me at the Shoreline 02:56	buy track
8.	Sleepwalkers 03:01	buy track
9.	Good Luck and High Tide 03:57	buy track

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Though it was recorded in an assortment of rooms and hotels across California, Nevada, Texas, and Oklahoma, Tourist feels remarkably durable. Abney sees it as a companion piece to his 2020 Familiar Ground LP but there’s a lightness here that was less pronounced previously, a kind of woozy solace you find in travel, in embracing the unpredictable. Using his personal portable studio, this is no troubadour with a busted guitar story, instead, Abney grows his songs, weaving drum machines, samplers, and synthesizers into the songs, fleshing the recordings out with sole collaborator John Moreland, who performed his parts and mixed from his own studio, using the internet to create the album over even longer distances.

Informed by much of the music Abney was listening to at the time (from the Japanese pop maestro Haruomi Hosono, Happy End, and Elton John through indie rock band War On Drugs), Tourist was equally, definitively shaped by the landscape itself, specifically, the sights and sounds of the redwood forests and cold coasts of Northern California where he spent his time during a harrowing fire season, idling in the countryside, accompanied by Steinbeck’s rich travel memoir Travels With Charley and a collection of Hemingway short stories, both given to him by a friends in Oklahoma. The western wildfires burning ominously through the dusk and dawn crept their way into the sounds and stories like the smoke did through his windows and doors.

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released August 5, 2022

Produced by John Calvin Abney and John Moreland
Engineered by John Calvin Abney and John Moreland
Mixed by John Moreland
Mastered by Kim Rosen

Album art created by Pearl Rachinsky-Moreland

Personnel:
John Calvin Abney - vocals, acoustic guitar, classical guitar, Mellotron, harmonica, Rhodes, Wurlitzer, synthesizers, percussion, harmonies
John Moreland - drums, bass, programming/sequencing, harmonies, synthesizers

All songs written by JCA and published by
Bullets in the Chamber Folk, BMI 2022

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